Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Jordana Mishory was managing editor of Inside the Pentagon until May 2017, where she covered the Pentagon's science and technology programs, audit-readiness efforts, and acquisition reform. Jordana previously worked as a reporter at the Daily Business Review in South Florida, where her articles led to the institution of more diversity training for judges and underscored the fact that a program designed to represent poor people wasn't working. Jordana's work has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, The Florida Bar and the Florida Press Club.
The Pentagon's lack of an effective process to identify cloud computing service contracts makes it challenging to determine whether these efforts are saving money, the Defense Department inspector general found in a new report.
The Pentagon has failed to provide the necessary information to Congress to determine if the department is achieving civilian and contractor workforce efficiencies, the Government Accountability Office found in a new report.
The Pentagon's advanced research arm intends to hold a proposers' day early next year for a new program that aims to develop a clock to help with synchronization in case GPS goes down.
Lawmakers have provided hundreds of millions of unrequested dollars for a Pentagon program that seeks to help fund innovative defense technologies.
In an aim to gain more insight into the services' military intelligence programs, lawmakers are calling on the defense secretary to lay out new details on the programs in the annual budget justification books.
Lawmakers want the Defense Department to explain how losing U.S.-based trusted foundries negatively impacts its weapon systems that require trusted microprocessors.
The Pentagon is updating its workforce strategic plan, with the goal to finalize it early next year, the Defense Department told a congressional watchdog office in a response to a recent report.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter is heading to the Middle East in an aim to have coalition partners contribute more to the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, President Obama said Monday during a briefing at the Pentagon.
The Pentagon's advanced research arm aims to hold a proposers' day this month for a program seeking to help address a capability gap due to optical technologies that are typically "prohibitively large, expensive, heavy and slow for defense applications," according to a new notice.
When it comes to non-nuclear weapons that can strike a target anywhere in the world in under an hour, the Defense Department hasn't "given adequate attention" to some risks, including whether U.S. adversaries can determine where the weapons are headed after launch, according to a think tank analyst.
Former Defense Secretary William Perry -- who famously held a "Last Supper" with top-level defense industry executives in the early 1990s that led to the consolidation of companies -- is suggesting defense officials be more explicit than he was when dealing with industry in the face of flattened defense budgets.
The Pentagon's acquisition workforce development fund has helped increase the number of certified acquisition professionals and their training in line with the Defense Department's Better Buying Power objectives to improve the professionalism of the workforce, according to a recent report DOD acquisition chief Frank Kendall sent to lawmakers.
The Pentagon's advanced research arm aims to hold a proposers' day this month to provide information on a new program designed to help find and respond to cyberattacks on critical U.S. infrastructure, according to a new notice.
The United States' advantage in the electromagnetic warfare domain is eroding, but the Pentagon can regain its edge by shifting its priorities and developing new operational concepts, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments states in a report released Wednesday.
Defense Department Inspector General Jon Rymer announced on Monday that he intends to resign from his post effective Jan. 8.
The Pentagon's advanced research arm seeks industry input for a program that aims to "fundamentally change" how systems are designed to enable better, faster responses to complex environments, according to a set of recent notices.
The Pentagon intends to sign a multimillion-dollar project arrangement with Australia that would help improve the capabilities of an aircraft that provides tactical jamming and electronic protection, according to a recent letter to lawmakers.
The Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment used a one-time influx of $20 million in fiscal year 2015 to fund nearly 40 new projects that examine everything from emerging competition with China to the impact of Russian military aggression, according to a recent letter to lawmakers from the office's director.
The Government Accountability Office asserts that the Pentagon's advanced research arm fails to "consistently position programs" to successfully transition developmental technology to the battlefield, though the Defense Department disagrees with the auditors' findings.
As the Pentagon continues to examine autonomy and the role of manned-unmanned teaming, the House Armed Services emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee heard from service leaders today on concerns and challenges associated with the new technology.